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Lately we have been getting asked more and more about communicating with Physicians via the Intranet.  Keeping Physicians up to date with information and also on current initiatives at the hospital through effective communication can lead to increased satisfaction and ultimately increased revenues.  Many of our existing customers are doing a great job of this with our system so I thought I would take a few minutes and share ideas on ways you can use the HospitalPortal.net system to keep in touch with your Physicians.

Start by setting up a secure page on the Intranet for your Physicians as a centralized place to communicate. Share this with them at your next meeting and let them know about how it will be used. Be sure to ask for their input and create a feedback form on the Intranet and link it to their page. If you don’t already have it, consider our Login Manager to provide secure remote access to the page for your Physicians so they can access content from their homes and offices.

Below are some ideas of content you might see on the Physicians page:

• News & Announcements
• Meeting\Event Calendars
• Meeting Minutes
• Committee Member Listings w/ photos
• Quality Data Reports/Dashboards
• Clinical Reports from your EMR
• Forums for sharing ideas and feedback on topics
• Physician Roster
• Key Contacts
• Policies & Procedures
• Bylaws
• Voting
• CME Courses and Calendars
• Links to other systems like an EMR, UpToDate, Paging System, PressGaney, etc.
• Pharmacy Formulary
• On Call Schedules
• Medical Staff Department contacts
• HCAHPS Scores
• Newsletters and other publications
• System user guides and manuals
• Patient Education
• Clinical Resources/Research

As you can see there are a ton of great resources to make available to your Physicians. Did we miss something that you are doing on the Intranet for your Physicians? Please comment on this post and share your ideas, questions, and feedback with the community.

In today’s healthcare environment, small and rural hospitals need to utilize an intranet as a key communications and operations support tool. An Intranet is not just a content or document publishing system, but it can be a cross-functional automation and communication tool that enables smaller hospitals to achieve efficiencies, address compliance issues, enable workflow automation, and reduce costs.

A well-designed hospital intranet can automate day-to-day tasks from work order tracking to requesting a day off or checking benefits information. In this webinar you’ll learn how to make the most of limited resources by providing self-service tools to guide administrative and clinical staff.

By leveraging easy to use web based interfaces to simplify use by non-technical staff, your small or rural hospital can improve operational efficiency across departments. Key benefits include improvement in the areas of emergency preparedness, employee involvement, patient safety, and compliance.

Learn how your hospital can put an easy-to-implement intranet to work by providing access to:

-Fillable forms to replace paper workflows.

-Publishing meeting minutes and packets to board members and physicians.

-User-specific dashboards to present data from multiple hospital systems.

-Automation of policy and procedure access and management.

For more information or to register for this webinar visit our registration page here.

We work with hospitals of all sizes across the US to help coordinate and centralize the idea of communications and document management through a web based intranet system. Today we’d like to highlight the humbling testimonial that was provided to us from Mike DiPasquele at Spooner Health System in Spooner Wisconsin.

Spooner Health System is rapidly moving ahead as quite the connected hospital as you may know from our previous post that highlighted them among “Most Wired” hospitals in 2011 according to the Hospital & Health Networks trade publication.  They had gone live with an EMR and felt it was vital to centralize all communications and document management in the organization. As Mike said, “we felt it was important to organize our key documents and policies in one place so our staff can quickly and easily find the most up to date policy.”

Additionally the request for employees to access the intranet from home speaks volumes to how vital the intranet is to a healthcare organization. It really is the lifeline for employee communication both from within and outside of the hospital. With the Login Manager add-on, the Spooner Health System employees are able to access the intranet in a very easy and secure manner.

To read a bit more about some of the great things Mike and his team had to say about the HospitalPortal.net Intranet Portal check out the press release here.

While we don’t want to take credit for it, we would like to acknowledge that a few of our clients have won some relevant awards. The clients we work with have initiatives in place to move forward with certain kinds of healthcare IT, including EMRs, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and digital security.  Here at HospitalPortal.net we believe that the intranet plays an integral role in implementing not only key IT programs but any project or program that can affect the entire hospital.

We’d like to congratulate the following clients for the winning the award for the Hospitals & Health Networks’  “Most Wired” hospitals in 2011:

Henry County Health Center

Spooner Health System

Northwest Community Hospital

Additionally we’d like to extend our congratulations to Howard County General Hospital for making the list of the 118 “Most Connected Hospitals” according to U.S. News & World Report.

If you’d like to see how our proven Intranet Portal can help bridge communications for your entire organization and help you move forward with other key healthcare IT systems check out our library of past webinars here.